The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-03
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHEREn
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

bolivar county politics are N. 4.
McComb City's population is 100.
Starkville corn is 30 cents a busL.I
Greenville will have electric liybts
Madison county's fair was a sue.
cess.
Hazlehnrst's compress is now in mo-
ton.
10000 people greeted JEFF Davis at
Macon.
Lafayette county Jail has in it II
prisoners.
Everything is "Fair" in Mississippi
at present.
KOsciusko had a wagon load of pos
sums lately.
Now for the railroad from Corinth
to Birmingham.
Tallahatchie's cattle have been suf-
fering for water.
Vicksburg aud Natchez are clamor-
ing for fine hotels.
Bible societies are being formed
through the State.
Away with Mormon Elders prosely
ting in Mississippi!
The sale of wagons ut Durant was
81 900 in one month.
Winston county has made more mo-
lasses than it can barrel.
The South Mississippi fair has reach
ed the Summit of success.
A Fruit Growers association has
been organized at Natchez.
Depot accommodations ut Vaughn
and Anding are insufficient.
Four prisoners escaped from the
Tate county Jail last week.
Jackson claims the finest cornet
band in the State-the Gem.
The Holmes County Alliance has
'resolved" to establish a bank.
The States cotton receipts are far
in advance of this time last year.
DR.. d. l.. Phares has retired from
the Southern Live Stock Journal.
The Central Mississippi Presbytery
convened at Greenwood Oct. 9th.
Aberdeen delegated rs citizens to
Memphis "to pay tribute to Caesar"
Mr.. c. E. Hooker, jr., recently add
dressed the Y. NJ. c. AS at Jackson.
On 6 acres, YazoO man raised 6
bales of cotton and 200 bushels of
corn.
The Natchez Banner is greatly im-
proved we are glad to see. ltdeserves
success.
Homer Magee, an old Brookhaven
boy,s writing interesting letters to the
State Ledger.
Hon. Robert Powell, of Canton,
will be candidate for Judge Whar-
toms Judgeship.
The new cemetery road of Nicks-
burg promises to be the most beautl-
full drive of the South.
Hon j. c. Longstreet. of Grenada,
will be candidate for Speaker of the
House next January.
October has witnessed three Jefferson
county gins burned, together with
much cotton and seed.
Mr.. j. b. Blewitt, of Covington, KY,
and Miss. Lizzie Hunter, of 1azoo City,
were recently married.
The Knights of Pythias, after their
recent ball in Vicksburg, donated to
the poor bOuntiful repast.
Mr.. F. C. Wadsworth, of Vicksburg,
was buried Oct. 2Sth. He will be
missed in every walk of life.
$1,000 was recently cleared on &c, 600
acres of Yazoo county land, bought
in 1885 for fifteen cents per acre.
From Choctaw, Webster and Oktib-
beha j. NJ. Prewitt comes out as amin
dependent candidate for Senator.
The tax levee in AlcOrn and COpiah,
two of the pioneer Prohibition coun-
ties, is only 10 mills for all purposes
Gen. S. d. Lee was elected a vice
president of the recent meeting OF the
Agricultural Congress in Washing
ton.
A disreputable man named Bur
nett was filled with squirrel shot at
Clinton last Monday by Mrs. John
Baskin.
Ed. Martin of the New Mississippian,
was elected Chairman of the Platform
Committee of the National Farmers
Alliance.
The KOsciuskO Dramatic club re-
Gently gave an entertainment, reallz-
ing $50 for the Presbyterian church al
that place.
Another old Confederate soldier,
Sergeant C. E. HutchesOn, OfsNlcEs-
burg, is crossing the river to restunder
the shade Ofthe trees.
The marriage of Hon. c. NJ. VII
hanson. of Raymond, and Miss Ma
ME Robinson, of jackson, was IN
event worthy of State record.
Prof. Mayes has written reply 70
Senator George, claiming that the
Senator is wrong in stating that the
State owes the University nothing.
Drs. Andrews and Sproles, of jack
son, simultaneously preached sermons
on the sin of theatre going. The I'm,
ma Abbott episode, the immediate
cause.
The resurrected Star of KosclusKo
nou- commances its second annual Pill